ubuntu · CVE-2017-6830

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-03-14 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:36:35 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-6830 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (audiofile), 5 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety): released 5.

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the alaw2linear_buf function in G711.cpp in Audio File Library (aka audiofile) 0.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted file.

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